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Vellucci said last week he will sponsor a resolution at next month's United States Conference of Mayors calling for federal regulations that would allow local communities to adopt standards stricter than the federal laws...
Yankelovich sees "the gradual evolution of a new implied contract between parents and their children." In his view, Traditionalists-the 57% of parents committed to stricter child rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense of obligation." The New Breed message: "We will not sacrifice for you, because we have our own lives to lead. But when you are grown, you owe us nothing...
...political impotence created a multiplicity of new formations, as organizations like the Ba'ath and the Arab Nationalist Movement, which had tried to embrace all manner of political belief under their own banners, split under the pressures of new demands, new political methods, and an increasing attention to stricter ideological definition. Thus, the "New Arab Left," which Ismael finally defines as "those new parties and/or organizations that publicly and unequivocally declare adherence to Marxism-Leninism" is the offspring of political events and older organizations which intensified dissatisfaction with the status quo, rather than quelling...
...said the present Burger Court is stricter than the former Warren court in dealing with pornography violations. "Pornography offends my taste," but the law is "not easy to enforce," he said...
...will the data be used? Nicholas Zill, the research psychologist who directed the study for Temple University's Institute for Survey Research, said he hoped his report would give children a voice in influencing their own "physical and psychological well-being." One of his chief recommendations: stricter regulation in the "disaster area" of television...